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cubefox • today at 11:48 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Eliezer Yudkowsky's "sequences" are over one million words long.

The sequences are really books made up of chapters (blog posts). Most of those posts are relatively short.


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TremendousJudge • today at 2:19 PM

They are also very repetitive. When I started reading it (back in 2015 I think?) I thought that they had some interesting info, but needed a good editor to remove at least 60% of the material; many chapters argued the exact same point as the previous chapter, with a slightly different analogy. Also many are responses to other blogs of the time, which also isn't interesting to read in a book since you don't have any context. Very tiresome to read.

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